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The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-10-29

Three months after all fashionable Lon
don went to the wedding. Ard as Mr..
Harry Kimberly went mp to congratulate
the bride, he said:
''But it is too bad that Jack should mar.
ry the premiere ddnseuse.''
The Grenada gazette., 1887-09-24
I. G. r. r. TIME TABLE.

A fine new Wilson Sewing Machine
complete with ali the latest attach
ments and Improvements, for sale
cheap. Come around and give us q
bid. Apply to the junior editor Of
this paper.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-09-24
AN OLD LULLABY.


sHush. my dear, lie still and slumbef;
Sweet the words that murmured low
h this twilight hour come floating,
From the days OF long ago;
When my loving arms EMBODIED,
Gathered to loving breast,
"Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber,"
Lullod me to my quiet rest.
Sweetly now the words come stealing
To my weary heart and brain,
Soothing all my cares and sadness,
With their otd familiar strain.
Almost to night could fancy,
Softly sung above my head
"Hush, my dear, lie still and slumoer,
Holy angels guard thy bed"
Soon shah life's long day be ended
Soon the eventime shall Gomez
Caeansed from sin. and freed from sorrow,
God shall take my spirit home;
And His messenger so sweetiy
To this weary frame shall say,
"Hush, my dear lie still and slumoer
Till the resurrection day
e r. Griffith, IN ". Y 05sereer.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-09-24

The working arrangements between
the Mississippi and Tennessee ana
Illinois Central Railroads insures the
prompt handling of Freight business
forwarded over the Mississippi ana
Tennessee Railroad shipments reach
lug destination following day Of de-
livery at Memphis depot.
Business consigned to the care OF Ihs
Mississippi aud Tennessee Kaiiroaa
at Memphis meets with dlspatch viz
this route.
We solicit your business, aud reques'
your calling upon agents for 'niof'
nation, etc.
See that your Tickets read over ms
.Nississippi 9.Tennessee Ra''r0aa
ASK agents for u.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-09-24

This train will stop at all flag stations
New Orleans mail north will stop at
Love, Nesbit, Horn Lake and White
haven to put Off passengers holding
tickets to these points from stations
south Of Glldiy Southbound this
train will stop at said points when
Tagged 10y agent to take OIL passcn-
gers south of Sardis.
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ne squirmed continually

ne squirmed continually
A young Swedish girl, with bright,
clean face and fiaxen hair, nicely parted
IN the middle.
A young German and his sweetheart
casting coy glances at each other.
From the scale room in to Castle Garden
proper Is short step. Directly in the
center of this inclosure, which is semicir-.
ealar, Is the money brokers' Office, where
foreign moneys ore exchanged for current
coin at the lowest rates. Directly back of
Ehis is the ticket office, where tickets can
bo bought to any part Of the country.
When the immigrants come into the Gar
den from the ship their names are taken,
and If there is any mail for them they get
lt on the spot Their tickets are then ex-
amined and they are then shipped of to
their various destinations. Those intend
ing to remain in the city are permitted to
4 30 TO boarding houses and hotels.
! Mons but licensed hotel runners are al
lowed To enter the Garden, and none but
those whose hotels are selected and exam
med by the emigrant commission appoint
ed by the state. On each side of the Gar
den is refreshment counter Solid food
:an be obtained. here at prices regulated
by the emigrant commission, and sched-
ules of prices are stuck up in different
parts Of the Garden. According to recent
testimony in the investigation, some of
these prices are pretty high. The immi-
grant gets many privileges at Castle Gar
den which he would undoubtedly have to
pay more for if he went out into the city.
He can eat and sleep there after fashion,
and his average daily expenses for week
would probably not be more than fifty
cents. The functions Of Castle Garden
are more those of lodging and eating
house than anything else. The koh-i-noor
Of the hotel clerk is not to be seen there,
and bell boys are not numerous, but the
guests arc there, and they relish their
coarse food as keenly as they would il 1t
were cooked by O French chef.
Castle Garden, the immigrants door
way to America, is ON interesting place to
visit. Tom MASON.
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GOV. ALvA ADAMS. sought to wipe
the white man from the face of the earth
ever since the two colors have dwelt on
the same hemisphere. 1t is hard for the
savage to understand that he must go
down before the paleface as surely as the
dew must disappear before the rays of the
morning sun. But would the result be
the same if the whites and the Indians
were of equal numbers? Another old ques-
ton suggested by the present outbreak
is: Has the United States government
hit upon the best method of treating the
Indians?
All this brings to mind the fact that
the twenty fifth anniversary Of the practi-
cal wiping out of the Sioux Indians has
just passed by almost unnotieed. On
Aug. 90, 1862, 500 Sioux Indians made
desperate attack upon New Ulm, Mimi
an attack which proved to be
their last frantic struggle against
the encroachments of the white
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every incoming vessel bears silent witness
to that fact So far the number of fatal
disasters has been remarkably small but,
measured by the terror they have inspired
among the passengers and the anxiety
they have caused the officers of some of
the transatlantic steamers, the storms al
ready reported have been Of q very serious
nature. Among the most severe wave
buffetings suffered by any vessel this year
was that reported by the Umbria, the big
steamer that brought to America DR..
Parker, the English divine, the Duke of
Marlborough and u number of other per-
sons prominent on one or both sides of the
water.
To these heavy storms the word hurri-
cane is frequently applied, though if the
storm be circular one, it is generally
called cyclone-quite different thing,
by the way, from q tornado-twister-
which is peculiarly land storm, as cy-
clone is peculiarly sea storm. When the
conditions of tornado occur over the
water the result is a water spout.
The real hurricane Or cyclone Is q rotary
storm, the diameter of which varies at
first from so to 200 miles, and increases as
the storm progresses
The accompanying diagrams, taken
from The New York Herald, give good
idea of this. Figure shows the position
of the bark Willard Mudge:t, which
vessel passed through q hurricane
on Aug. 21, 1886. AS the vessel crossed
the outer edge of the hurricane the wind
was from the east. The progress of the
bark toward the center of the storm was
marked by gradual change Of wind from
east to south, and as the vessel cleared
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chief, had promised to winter his squaws
near st. Paul. Well, he did, but in bond
age, and not as O victor. Although the
civil war was at that time at it's height,
the government stamped out the Indian
trouble relentlsssly, and 1900 Indian
women and children fell into the hands Of
the victors, the braves generally deserting
their families and retreating into Dakota.
The procession Of captured Indians on
their way to Fort Shelly was a mournful
sight. During 1852 800 Minnesota set
tiers were killed by the redskins and in
two years the lives of 1900 white people
and $11 900, 600 in cash were sacrificed in
the fight.
Those were days of heroism in Mime
sota-heroisn that has been largely over
looked because of the greater struggle be-
tween north and south that was going ON
at the same time, but none the less hero
ism of the highest order.
After them came the Modoc war-who
doesn't remember it?-and the Custer mas
sacer; and later still, the Apache uprising
and other disturbances.
But the end cannot now be very far off.
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beds with modern improv sments during
the voyage, nor have their feet touched
the tessalated marble floors of modern
steamship state room. For ten days they
have been crowded together like cattle in
corral. Each one pays something near
$40 for the passage from the old country
to New York. And he gets it. But very
little more. They are loaded on board
ship on the other side and unloaded at
Castle Garden, and that is all
When they get here they arc always
cheerful-English and Irish, Scandina-
Wan and German, Bohemian and Pole,
Russian and Turk, Greek and Hebrew
all with their faces hopefully set west
ward. They have come to q land Of
promise. But not all who start for this
fair land of promise reach their journeys
end. Then something like this happens
at Castle Garden:
A dapper young clerk walks in to
Superintendent Jackson's Office and shouts
few words through the telephone. Ehis
is what he said on O recent occasion:
"Hello-lo-lol Is that you, Cap'n? Take
this down:
"Kate B., Adriatie, aged 53
Thought to be insane. On the 23d Kate
tumbled overheard and went to the bot
tom of the deep blue sea.
'Hello-lo. say she went to the bot
tom of the deep blue sea.''
.What?''
Nothing but one small box. That's all
that's left of Katie tn, tai Goodbye
And the dapper young gentleman walked
of whistling the 'Boulanger March" with
much vehcmence and energy.
Poor Katiei
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THISTLE IN RACING RIG.

Scotch boats trim model and enormous
spars and sails has not added to the conf
dence felt in the Volunteer either. 1t
was noticeable about New York that the
fellows who, before the Thistle's arrival,
were the loudest in their assertion that
she couldn't possibly win back the Amer
lea cup were most discouraged at sight of
her. But the more conservative ones
shook their heads end counseled pa
thence. ''Wait till she takes her
trial spin" they said sbefore you give up
hope"
On Monday she shook out her sails and
took her spin. Then the conservative
ones seemed to take little heart, and fol-
lowing their lead the mercurial fellows,
before SO respondent, became quite gay
again. The annexed cut shows the Thistle
as she appeared ON the trial, only she had
a rowboat in tow which is mot shown In
the cut. But she sailed very '1oggy,"
and though she sspointed" close enough to
the wind to make 3. Yankee quite lose
heart, she went slow enough to cheer him
up great deal.
But the race is yet to be sailed.
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WAlT1Na ZOE TRANSPORTATION.

In Manhattan's early days Castle Gar
den was fort It was called Fort
William Kendrick. Later the name
was changed to Fort Clinton. In 1880
the fort came into private hands. Along
in the 20s it was used as summer gar
den, and it was then first called Castle
Garden. In 1882 it was the scene of o
grand ball given to the Marquis Lafay-
cite, and in 1843 reception was given to
President Tyler within its walls.
When P T. Barnum brought the Swedish
songstress Jenny Lind to America she first
sang in Castle Garden, then o concert hall.
The seats for the opening performance, on
Sept. II, 1850. were sold at auction and
brought enormous prices, $225 being
given for one seat by New York halter
who wanted to advertise himself. In
May, 1847, the board of commissioners OF
emigration was created and the Garden
was afterward chosen as convenient and
suitable entrepot for immigrants.
In 1876 the Garden was burned A few
months after the present structure was
erected, over the ruins OF the old fort.
Part OF the fort still remains, and one can
sit in the embrasures formerly used for
cannon and look out over New York bay,
with its maratime miscellany of steam
and sailing craft.
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The immigrants are taken off from the
steamers in barges and tenders. Some of
these boats have rude cabins, without seats,
that look like elongated box cars, such as
are used for cattle, set on their decks. To
the left of the immigrant as he walks up
the gangplank into Castle Garden is
the scale room. This is used for
baggage, and the freight offices OF
the railroad companies are located here.
This room is filled with baggage of every
description. Bundles and bags. chests and
boxes, bedding bound together by stout
cords, and what not. Mixed in with this
homogeneous mass, in every conceivable
shape and form, leaning, sitting, sleeping,
are immigrants. Fathers and mothers,
Eweethearts, husbands and wives, sisters
and cousins, old and young. During
recent visit to Castle Garden, noted in
this room:
An Irish girl sleeping with her feet nm
covered, using her shoes for pillow.
A small boy from Turkey, with q curly
head, dirty face and pair of loose
breeches that look like the puffed sleeves
of fashionable young lady's dress.
AWee bit of q German girl, eating away
for dear life on bologna sausage so big
she had to use both hands,
A young English girl, with winter
cloak and light summer straw hat.
A 7-year old boy from England, with Q
complete suit OF Jersey that set 90 tightly
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RUINS OF OLD MERv FORTRESS.

important military camp. The natives
camp in the tents not occupied by the SOL
diers, in order to repair the road and keep
the telegraph wires in good condition. AS
one approaches Merv vegetation becomes
abundant; herds OF cattle Craze in the
fields, the villages are numerous and near
to each other, fences separate the proper
ties, brooks irrigate the fruit gardens, and
the desert gives place to a civilization
which manifests itself by houses covered
with roofs in the form Of domes, by towers
and by o noticeable culture. Merv ap-
pears at last. At first it seems only
great fortress, whose walls of stone rise by
the side of o clear stream. Scarcely has
one left the station when one enters the
new city built by the Russians, dusty
city, still without shade, and where one
detects an odor of fresh plaster.
Old Merv, or rather the ruins Of old
Merv, stands on plateau less exposed
to the inundations than the shores of the
M0urgab. To the right and left of the
railroad are debris of walls, of broken
towers, of pointed gates, making an In
teresting and thrilling panorama. Here
is tomb, there fortress, and farther Off
gate which suggests the middle ages Of
the occident. It presents the aspect OF O
city which was ready to defend itself.
Perhaps our gothic art had its source in
these cities of the orient. Who can tell
of the beauty of Merv before the invasion
Of the Mongols, when it numbered 700,-
600 souls? There still remain ON the
Mourgab some traces which indicate to
what degree Of prosperity the city and its
environs attained.
Every time that Merv fell into the
hands Of her enemies, Mengols or Mus
sulmen, and the wave of invasion passed,
the inhabitants set to work to repair the
disaster. Merv counts now only 5000
souls. But in twenty years it will be one
of the great cities of Asia. But European
civilization, in taking possession of Merv,
has already introduced there some of its
vices, which are fast taking hold upon the
natives. Brandy and whisky, until then
unknown, are now more than holding
their own. The market of Merv is o
spectacle of extraordinary animation. Il
is held twice week in great plain situ-
ated ON the right side of the Mourgab,
and there gathers from the city and round
about 10, 600 Tekes.
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the southern edge of the storm the wind
changed to the westward. The GEN.
ter of the hurricane is usually calm,
its greatest diameter being about
forty miles, when the storm is in an adj
vanced stage. The cause of hurricanes is
involved in obscurity. Many theories have
been advanced, but none which are en-
tirely satisfactory. In the southern hem
isphere the direction of the wind is al
ways directly opposite to the hands Of a
watch placed with the face up. In the
northern hemisphere the opposite Of this
is true. In 1858 Ferrell showed conclu-
sively that this is due to the rotation Of
the earth ON its axis, causing the winds
in the southern hemisphere to defect to
the left hand, and in the northern hemis-
phere to defect to the right hand. The
greatest velocity Of o hurricane observed
has been 1870 miles an hour. The hurTi-
cane season lasts from July to October.
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with the rest of the tribe to Utah
when he found he tshad to' His stay on
the arid plains of the Mormon territory
was not protracted one, however, and
when he went back to Colorado he took
with him sixty braves and their families.
He has been very troublesome since 1880,
and took part in the Meeker massacre.
Governor Adams, of Colorado, whose
name has been frequently mentioned in
the newspaper accounts of the troubles, is
Democrat and is very popular in his
state. His prompt action in the present
case will doubtless add to his popularity.
He was born in Iowa county, Wis, thirty
six years ago. Receiving but common
school education, he started out ON his
own hook in 1871, settling in Colorado,
where for u time he was wage worker.
After a while he went into the hardware
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ACROSS CENTRAL ASIA.
RUSSIA BUILDING A TRANScASPiAN
RAILROAD.

The Point OF Departure-Map of the
New Road-sights q Traveller will See.
The Ruins of Old Merv-A Mervian
Market.
England looked with an unquiet eye on
the progress made by the Russian army
toward its Indian empire when Skobelof
reduced 40, 900 Turks to subjection. Some
body insinuated that the czar, under the
pretext of Furnishing the Turks for their
numerous outrages on the Persians, in
tended to establish direct route between
st. Petersburg and Calcutta. Russia, in
establishing d road almost to the frontiers
of Afghanistan, prepared to strike Eng
land in her Asian possessions. The Turks
had committed acts of piracy on the Cas-
plan sea, and that sea is Russian. The
police on the Persian shores belong to
Russia, who did only their strict duty in
calling the Turkish pirates to book.
The railroad starts from the Caspian
sea at Ouzoun Ada, which literally signi-
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A GIANT IN GRANITE.
THE NEW STATE, WAR AND NAVY
DEPARTMENT BUILDING.
Ten Millions in Brick and Stone-Its
Wonderful DimensiOns-Two Miles of
Corridors and Forty Miles of Pine.
Doors at 5000 Each.
Especial Correspondence. !

Doors at $500 Each.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The great build
ing OF the state, war and navy department
will soon be completed. I walked through
IL recently with its superintendent and
noted some of the wonders of it's construc-
ton. looked over half dozen great at
lases which contain the plans of its vari-
Gus floors, and noted that it's structure
Is as delicately outlined almost as the
anatomy of the human frame.
This is the largest granite building in
the world. 1t covers more ground than
the Capitol and it has cellar over two
acres in extent. 1t will cost, when COM
pleted, SO, 405, 900, and it will probably
last as long us the pyramids. 1t is made
Of immense blocks of iron gray granite,
weighing all the way from quarter of O
ton to ton each. In one wing alone
there arc 10000 of the big granite blocks,
and the number of blocks in the whole
structure will aggregate $4,000. The
flooring space of the building, if stretched
out, would cover q twenty acre field, and
1t would make one of the largest baseball
grounds in the country. The length of
its corridors is more than two miles, and
these corridors are SO wide that two
horse wagon load Of hay could be driven
through them without grazing the walls
on either side. The whole building con-
tains q perfect network Of pipes and fiues,
which run through its every part like the
veins in the human body. If these pipes
and fues could be stretched out they
would extend us far as from Washington
to Baltimore, and they would make con-
tinuou3 line OF over forty miles.
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man. The re-
sistance by the
men of the town
was Us desperate
as the onslaught,
and, thank Provi-
dence, it was quite
successful, though
full three score of
the towns defend
ers and a third Of
the houses were
sacrificed in the
struggle. Little
Grow tha Siony
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS

!. Any one who takes paper regularly from th
P0etoce-whether directed to his name or another p
or whether he has subscribed OF motifs respongiblp
for the payment.
3. 1t person orders his paper discontinued, h.
must pay all arrearages, the publisher will con
tinue TO send until payment s made and collect the
office or not.
8. Thecourts have decided that refusing TO take
thenewspapers or periodicals from the Postofice or
removing and leaving them uncaled for, is primo
f0cse evidence of intentionalfra
Papers ordered to any address can be changed to
another address at the optien of the subscriber
kemittances BY draft, check money order OF regis
tered letter may Re sent at risk. All Poetmastere
are required to register letters on application.
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Alderwood and Gunpowder.

Alderwood has for centuries been used
In the manufacture of gunpowder, and it
is no uncommon thing to find copses en-
tirely of it alone, and these are most fire.
quently placed in some low lying spot
where little brook runs through the
the middle, and soft, rushy land lies on
either side. ''Dogwood, y also, is In great
request by the powder manufacturers, and
this is probably the highest priced kind Of
underwood grown. After the alder is
peeled it is cut into neat lengths OF three
feet. and by and by they are sent Off to
Hounslow or Waltham Abbey, the gov
ernment mills, where they form the base
OF the destroying powder. Good Words.
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give tho Woman . Chance

Bluffum is possessed of a broad, catholic
spirit. There is nothing contracted about
Blufum. He was reading the other evening
the card of a woman in the newspaper in
which she demanded that women be admitted
into certain professions. Them my senti-
ments, exclaimed Bluffum with invented
emphasis. Give woman right to labor
wherever she wants. Hang It'll she may do
oil the work for aught care ~ Boston
Transcript
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A Navigable balloon.

claims to have at last invented per-
fectly nayigable balloon. In order to pre-
serve the secret OF its construction he is
butt In different countries. Chicago
Times.
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A Mistake.

My car, you know, Yves number thirty;
And by the crossing she would wait;
When streets were dry or streets were dirty,
Each day found her sure as fate.
All, me, with what pretty motion
She waved her dainty little glove
loved at sight; and I'd q notion
That she returned my ardent love.
grew to look with heart a-beating
TO see her standing coyly there,
And passion thrilled my tender greeting
Whene'er murmu-ed Miss, your farel''
But now vainly try to blot her
From out heart of miseree,
For she was but a female spotter-
Sit still, my soul-she spotted me.
Sun and Voice
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THE THlsTLE'S SPIN.

She Pointed Very Close, but She Didn't
Sail Very Fast.
Ever since the Thistle has been an
chored in American waters there has been
q good deal of anxious discussion of her
''points' on the part of persons interested
in yachting affairs. Inspection of the
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is notable chiefly
because of the
lie tn of his
tongue. He was
one of the first of
the Indians of his
tribe to express
disgust with the
conduct of the
whites in taking
away Efrom the
tribe the lands in
Color ado they
claimed as ther